Palm-Lined with Potience Elisabeth Houston Een halve eeuw eerder had

Een halve eeuw eerder had Kouwenaar de Nederlandse literatuur al veranderd als een van de Vijftigers

these texts invoke issues of gender and race-based injustice

and her new book mixes short lyrics with long

he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization

allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king

Palm-Lined with Potience Elisabeth Houston Een halve eeuw eerder hadBasie Allen Palm Lined with Potience is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allens debut collection of poems. Basies work is by turns political and lyrical, charting both physical and emotional landscapes, making maps of paintings and paintings of maps. While rooted in Pro Black theory, art, and precise description, Basie makes space in the ekphrastic for the eerie and abstract. The poems in this collection search for nodes of truth in a